This seems to be an open invitation to any country to finally clarify Puerto Rico’s uncertain status in order to give these people the chance to live in dignity.
Obviously, nothing but slavery and disrespect can be expected from the US.
And yet, despite shamelessly embezzling more than $200 million from the state treasury and committing unprecedented abuse of office, which directly led to the deaths of countless people, even the murder of US citizens, she is not in prison—to my knowledge, she is not even under investigation for any of this. It is really a lawless country, this new Nazi America…
The only things he reportedly expresses serious interest in are self-enrichment and little girls.
Those are his interests in Iran as well, and here too, many innocent little girls have already fallen victim to him.
Is there anywhere you can bet that this obvious embezzlement of state funds will also remain completely without consequences?
Polymarket is out of the question, as Trump Jr. has a stake in the company.
All too typical: slave labor! Not much has really changed in the land of the free (white men).
Edit: It seems that many US citizens are unaware of this, but this is nothing new in the States: the majority of prisons in the US are run as private enterprises (and yes, they do put people to work for almost nothing and not just since Trump), which for obvious reasons is not the case in any other democratic country - at least not to this extent and with this level of absurdity. It goes without saying that the insanely inflated ICE budget, which under Trump exceeds that of all other agencies, such as the FBI and CIA, many times over, essentially benefits MAGA collaborators such as the Geo Group, one of the largest private prison corporations. But hey, that’s just an added bonus that the orange pedo is giving his co-conspirators at the expense of US citizens, because the real goal is obviously to build a secret police force that is loyal only to him - and, as I said, it has a budget that dwarfs all other agencies, even combined.
Well, that should finally make it clear that the US is a failed state where organized crime reigns instead of law and order. This has been more than obvious for a long time, but perhaps now even those who still refused to believe it will finally realize that they are ruled by a king-like mob boss whose depravity can hardly be surpassed by any other monstrous tyrant of this world.
Yes, it is unfortunately becoming increasingly clear that even in the EU, billionaires and their companies are above the law. The legal situation should be clear here and there should be consequences - but there apparently aren’t any.
Unfortunately, this applies not only to Twitter, but to most US tech giants in particular, to meta, for example. I have already stopped counting the massive violations of the GDPR that meta and others are constantly committing, because nothing happens anyway. If anything, the fines are so low that violating the law brings these companies far more revenue than it costs them.
So unfortunately, the same major issue that brought the US to the brink of a straight up dictatorship also applies in Europe: even the most blatant violations of the law have no serious consequences for the richest of the rich – and that is why billionaires are becoming more and more powerful.
The situation may be better in the EU for now than in the US, whose legal system obviously no longer even maintains the appearance of fairness, but even in the EU, the enforcement of the law is miles away from anything that could even remotely be called justice.
The reason seems to me to be the same as in the US: concentration of power in a tiny billionaire class that asserts its influence through corruption.
I think that if things continue like this, and I see no indicators that they will not, it will not be long before even the appearance of justice is abandoned in the EU as well.
Edit: Here is an example of how this is possible - it’s just plain old corruption, but in the highest ranks of our institutions: From Meta to the EU Parliament: Former chief lobbyist negotiates data protection (German article)
Aura Salla was Meta’s chief lobbyist in Brussels for many years. Her task: to convince politicians to weaken EU digital rules such as data protection in order to generate even higher profits with Facebook, WhatsApp, and other platforms.
This is likely a physical defense reaction against the prosecution of serious criminals who are waging a war to cover up their own misdeeds. Perhaps he should seek advice from Bibi.
I didn’t want to start a discussion about the pros and cons of megathreads, I just wanted to ask whether this is common practice in the Fediverse. That doesn’t seem to be the case - and for good reason, given the decentralized nature of the network. For the sake of simplicity, it would be welcome for some topics, but I’m sure we’ll manage just fine without it.
I’m on Piefed(.social). However, the discussion is still mainly taking place on Lemmy. If there is such a megathread on the war in Iran on .world, for example, I can’t find it.
Yes, and it’s also great that the regime is setting up a secret police force with ICE that has a budget equivalent to the military spending of a medium-sized country…
Seriously, how can any reasonably rational person accept this? Why doesn’t the population paralyze the country with a general strike until this criminal regime is forced to resign? That would also be an opportunity to finally overcome the associated oligarchy and force through the reforms that have been necessary for ages. This includes a fundamental update of the constitution, which has not been updated for at least 150 years, something the US seems to be proud of for some inexplicable reason, which can only mean that this country is unaware that it is still celebrating a system of apartheid.
The same applies to the rule that constitutional judges are elected for life - for obvious reasons, there is no other democratic country in the world that would adhere to this; likewise, there is no democratic country that has an electoral college system or similar that does not even take into account the population of a particular state.
Well, that may be one of the countless reasons why the US, under reasonably sensible leadership, has not attempted to attack Iran. Now it has come to pass because a pedophile, threatened by his heinous deeds catching up with him, decided to try it anyway in order to distract from the crimes he and his degenerate crew are committing - in open violation of international law as well as US law. He and his accomplices in Israel apparently trust that the US citizens will let him get away with it unpunished. How about it, US citizens - is that the case? Is there really no justice left in your country?
Only a complete idiot like the orange pedo in the White House would believe that a autocratic regime that has been in power for decades and has also been engaged in a “cold war” with many of its neighboring countries for decades would fall immediately because its 86-year-old leader was killed.
But hey, it speaks volumes how the US is acting together with its genocidal allies: Congratulations on the murder of an aging despot in violation of international law, and my expression of utter contempt for the murder of the many innocent little girls that these two criminal states committed as if it were not the most despicable war crime.
Fuck off with your self-righteous remarks, you goddamn monsters. Nobody except your Nazi henchmen wants to hear that.
Thank you very much for the explanation :)
Can someone explain this to me? I’m out of the loop when it comes to mainstream social media, and I suspect that’s what this is about…
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll definitely take a look at that. It’s remarkable how the US has managed to maintain an image of “freedom” for years, even though it uses autocratic surveillance methods not only only on any other country but on its own citizens - and also for years and years. You almost have to be grateful to Trump for revealing all this in such an incredibly stupid way, just to enrich himself.
In 2020, the European Court of Justice declared the Privacy Shield agreement, an agreement on data exchange with the US, incompatible with European law and thus effectively terminated it, not because of the activities of any corporations, but because data stored on US servers is not sufficiently protected from access by the US government (Schrems II ruling). The reason for this is the absurd legislation in the US, such as the Patriot Act, which, although it has been weakened, still allows the state to force any company or private individual to hand over all data processed on servers physically located on US soil, even without any suspicion or a court order.
As a result, all US companies doing business in the EU were forced to operate servers on European soil in order to continue their activities legally. European companies that used US providers that did not comply had to switch to providers that do not operate servers in the US.
Unfortunately, it took only 21 months for US lobbying to undermine the European Court of Justice’s decision: in 2022, a follow-up agreement was adopted, the “EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework,” which is no different from its predecessor at all. The legal situation remains the same in the US, and once again there is no protection of data from the US government.
In short, anyone who uses services that are processed on US servers is not protected from arbitrary access by the US - and this also applies to EU citizens.
I don’t feel sorry for anyone sitting there.
Indeed, even in the West. When you consider that the US regime is even waging a war that violates international law in order to distract attention from the Epstein Files, the situation looks bleak, especially for underage girls - and, of course, for all the innocent children who fall victim to the bombs.